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...hantavirus, a rodent-borne killer that swept through the Four Corners area of the American Southwest last spring, has claimed its first life in the Northeast. Health officials have not yet determined how or when 22-year-old David Rosenberg of Rosyln, New York, became infected. Fifty-nine people have developed the infection so far; the disease, which is difficult to treat, is fatal 60% of the time...
Dave Faucher's team (9-15, 5-7) has roared back from a 1-12 start, and the Big Green swept Columbia and Cornell last week behind freshman Sea Lonergan's third Rookie of the Week performance...
...published as South Wind Changing (Graywolf Press; 320 pages; $20). The author's childhood was pastoral and amazingly peaceful. Although an older brother was a military pilot, the war at first did not touch the island in the Mekong Delta where his large, prosperous family grew rice. But fighting swept through with the Tet offensive of 1968, when Jade was 12, and afterward "the war continued on and off like a chronic disease." He had passed his university exams when the North won its victory and the Americans flew away, and therefore, as a suspect intellectual, he was sentenced...
This argument, made by conservatives and liberals alike, is premised on a misinterpretation of what "multiculturalism" is all about. True multiculturalism is not the movement which has swept through American campuses in recent years. It is not separatism, it is not ethnocentrism and it is not represented by the proliferation of ethnic studies departments. It is the inclusion and integration of noteworthy individuals and groups, regardless of race, religion and class, into a common curriculum...
...sounds like a trio, that sounds like there's only one guitar going at once rather than trying as Big Star did to pick a famous example) to fill up the record with layers'n'layers of sound. The economy is refreshing, and makes it even easier to get swept away by the riffs, which are the point...